| | As much as I like way out-of-date, more-than-slightly macabre pop-culture references, I feel it's time for a new entry if only to not be reminded of Heath Ledger (and because it's been half a year since my last update (and in case you really like out-of-date, macabre pop-culture references, "at least Michelle Williams is free now!").
School is finally out, and I can honestly say I've never had so little remorse for leaving a place I've attended for so long. The only sadness associated with the event was the realization that I was kind of an Adult, and the thought that I had wasted my youth; concerns tempered by my usual strategy of adding 10 to my current age and proclaiming: "I'll still be young then, so I'm way young now."
In lighter news, I've re-interested myself in a set of encyclopedias from 1880. While most of the set is obnoxiously accurate (I wanted to laugh at their crazy views on the world, science, and the like! Instead, I learned a good deal about Charles Sumner (whose entry is longer than Andrew Jackson's), infanticide (which "had defenders among the likes of Aristotle and Plato!") and palindromes (far easier to make in latin, apparently)) but here are few fun facts I managed to find anyway:
The construction of a "Panama canal" would be impracticable, despite negotiations between President Grant and the country of Panama.
Influenza is caused by too much o-zone in the atmosphere.
Gonorrhea is cured by injecting silver nitrate directly into the penis.
And the illustrations are wonderful too, but I have yet to take pictures. Expect them soon. *UPDATE* The pictures have obviously been taken. To see them in non-thumbnail form, check out the "photos" link at the top left.
 
 
*edit* Special shout out to someone from Kentucky who, according to my "footprints", read just about all my xanga entries: "Heyyyyyyyy...."
*edit 2: the editing* Also, any ribald messages you may have received from me are actually from Caleb in my guise. Laughs all around.
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